Your Superhuman abilities

[cindybubbles]

For example: I ordered a white hot chocolate at Starbucks one day, but received a white chocolate mocha instead. How do I know? I tasted coffee in it! My coffee-swilling friends didn't even notice!

The same thing happened at a Lindt store where we saw employees practicing their barista skills and we saw three drinks on the table that they asked us to test for them. I accidentally picked up a mocha when I thought it was white hot chocolate. I tasted coffee again, but my friend didn't. I think that he even tasted it and could not find the caffeine. It was only then that I asked what kind of drink it was, and when told it was a mocha, I discovered my ability to taste and/or smell caffeine.

I also noticed that I can hear and smell better than others, though that doesn't seem to apply to fresh, non-lilac, flowers.

What about you?

[Aragarthiel]

I can smell my husband's farts before he lets them go. It started when I was pregnant and we were driving somewhere, and I yelled out, "Honey! That stinks!" He gave me a look of incredulity and told me I said that JUST as he let the fart go.

I can't do it with anyone else though.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I can taste coffee in anything. I am not a coffee drinker,, and do not like anything with coffee in it. Every now and then Mrs. IA will tell me to try something because she can't taste the coffee in it, but I can always taste the coffee.

[Food Lady]

I am impervious to the effects of air-borne viruses. It's extremely rare for me to get sick aside from allergies.

[MoonCat]

I can tell when I've got a nutcase on the phone from the very first word out of that person's mouth. It never fails.

[EricKei]

cindy -- Well, chocolate does have caffeine in it, after all...o_O;>

I have the ability to read customers' minds. Problem is, a lack of valid subjects...>_<

I do have the ability to discern flavors I don't like (I'm supertaster-ish, so things like coffee or broccoli or okra...), even in miniscule amounts. Broccoli & cheese that's got so much cheese that it's basically fondue with green specks still tastes just as vile as plain broccoli to me.

[flyonthewall]

I have excellent hearing that helps in my intelligence gathering activities.

[Kogarashi]

I am rarely surprised by plot twists in books and movies, because I can usually see them coming, even before my (usually genre-savvy) husband does.

[Aria]

I can detect alcohol even in minute quantities.

Other than that, my only super power is common sense. It's very useful.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

I had a professor in college who was such a supertaster that she could identify food colorings based on flavor. She could ID the colors of M&M's by taste while blindfolded.

[lordlundar]

I can detect alcohol even in minute quantities.

Other than that, my only super power is common sense. It's very useful.

Likewise. To date I have thwarted any attempts to get me to have alcohol for that very reason.

[April]

I can taste sugar alternatives. I don't care what people say, if it's got splenda, nutrisweet, any of that, whether it's baked in something or in a drink, I can taste it. It tastes kinda like coins. (I may or may not have put various denominations of coins in my mouth when I was child)

[Food Lady]

Don't accept any baked goods from me. I don't even have sugar in the house. I can taste them, too, but they don't bother me. I'm used to them.

[EricKei]

I can do the alcohol thing, too, but it's as much because even a small amount makes me really ill as anything else, so I've internalized the need to treat it as a poison.

As for sweeteners: I can kinda tell the difference -- Mostly to call bullshit on the "it tastes just like sugar!" claims ~_~

[cindybubbles]

cindy -- Well, chocolate does have caffeine in it, after all...o_O;>

Yeah, I meant coffee, not caffeine. I sometimes get those two mixed up because I don't drink coffee or caffeinated soda pop.